Top UK Local-Business Directories (AKA Citation Sources)

You chaps and dames in the UK may drive on the wrong side of the road and confuse beer with cocoa (only one of which should be served warm!), but at least the challenge of getting a business visible in Google Places is the same across the pond as it is here in the States.

OK, fine, so maybe even the Google Places / local-search-visibility puzzle is different in the UK from how it is here. That is, you need to list your business on different third-party sites in order to get maximum local visibility (which isn’t news to you).

The first step, of course, is to know what those third-party sites are.

Enough of me mates have asked me to cough up my list of UK local-search citation sources. It’s about bloody time I do so.

Here’s the full monty:

(extra-important sites in bold)

118Information.co.uk

AgentLocal.co.uk

ApprovedBusiness.co.uk

BizWiki.co.uk

Britaine.co.uk

BTLinks.com

BusinessNetwork.co.uk

City-Listings.co.uk

City-Visitor.com

CityLocal.co.uk

CompaniesintheUK.co.uk

Cylex-UK.co.uk

FreeBD.co.uk

FreeIndex.co.uk

Fyple.co.uk

GoMy.co.uk

HotFrog.co.uk

It2.biz

Local.TrueKnowledge.com

LocalDataCompany.com

LocalDataSearch.com

LocalMole.co.uk

LocalLife.co.uk

LocaTrade.com

Manta.com

MarketLocation.com

MiQuando.com

MisterWhat.co.uk

MySheriff.co.uk

Opendi.co.uk

Qype.co.uk

Recommendedin.co.uk

Scoot.co.uk

SmileLocal.com

TheBestof.co.uk

TheDirectTree.com

TheDiscDirectory.co.uk

ThomsonLocal.com

Tipped.co.uk

TouchLocal.com

UFindUs.com

UK.Uhuw.com

UK.WowCity.com

UK-Local-Search.co.uk

UK-Locate.co.uk

UKSmallBusinessDirectory.co.uk

Wampit.com

WheresBest.co.uk

WhoseView.co.uk

Yalwa.co.uk

Yell.com

Yelp.co.uk

Zettai.net

Now comes the fun part: listing your business on all the above sites. As I’m sure you’ve noticed, links to the “Add business” pages are on the right, so at least you don’t have to hunt around for them.

Comments

Hi Phil
Capital effort old boy Truly appreciate the extent of your selfless sharing of valuable information. This will save me hours of work trying to find UK citation sites when I set up my own UK entity . Highlighting the main ones are even more of a godsend. Many, many thanks again for all your insights.
All the very best to you and yours over the the festive season.
Warmly
JasRoy

Actually, not having each site hyperlinked was intentional on my part: it doesn’t save a significant amount of time for a business owner who’s working off of the list, and if I had 400+ links on one page it would look an awful lot like a link farm to Google. But thanks for the feedback (I’m always trying to make the citations list better.)

Phil!
That is one hell of a list, thank you so much. I’m working on a website project that will benefit from this immensley. Having been building sites for some time, I now need them to show in the big G serps! I also shall add this to my day to day jobs for clients. Also, thank you for bolding the important ones – I’ll start with those and carry on! Many thanks again. Splendid, spiffing and top-notch…!
Cheers mate
Matt

Thanks for the great list !
Also you may try sifting through citationlabs’ reports – they yield quite a great sources as well – run them around ‘citations’/’local search’ keyword and variations ( add UK etc, play around with it )
Cheers

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